FreightWaves using ROTR funds to invest in people

Did you wonder how $100,000 would help FreightWaves move the needle on its fast-growing start-up? Last week’s winner in the Chattanooga stop on “The Rise of the Rest Road Tour” says it will use the funds “to provide educational grants to individuals with a data science, economics, or journalism background to continue their education, or alternatively, to relocate individuals that have Master’s or PhDs in economics, data science, or journalism to work at our headquarters in Chattanooga.” Read what the company posted here.